From sub_divided: go to imdb.com and look up your ten favorite movies. Pick three Plot Keywords from each, then post the keywords along with these instructions, and see whether anyone else can guess the movies.1. Playroom, New Year's Eve, Wealth ( Read more... )

At long last Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's 1981 production La Cenerentola has been released on DVD. And since when it comes to things I really want to squee over, I'm rather like a misplaced Austen hero (if I loved it less, I could talk about it more) all I can say is this is an intensely beautiful version, both as an opera and a film, and I recommend it ( Read more... )

From robotology: I want to know one movie you've seen that you found absolutely profoundly beautiful for whatever reason at all.

It's been nearly a hundred and humid for over a week. I'm cracking, I think -- next thing you know I'll be writing fic where miserable weather like this is a metaphor for emotional, social and spiritual decay. Really, any time you do not have enough energy and concentration to read even the most straightforward and uncomplicated fanfic, there is ( Read more... )

Last night I sat through most of the agonizing new Keira Knightley Pride & Prejudice -- by the time I got to Mr. Bingley's 'But I can read...' line I knew this was not going to work for me. People said it was Brontëfied. It's worse than that: it's like a Brontë pastiche aimed at twelve-year-olds. It wasn't that the acting was particularly bad -- ( Read more... )

If I had an army, and somebody had to rally my troops? I would so pick Ian McKellen.

Go with trailer No. 2

Housekeeping: a couple of wallpapers, Muraki being all elegantly psychopathic, and John Lennon (which is prue fangirl self-indulgence).

Politics: Usually I try to keep this journal more or less fanish, but here are a couple of links.

Secret and Ties -- You know that Simpsons episode where the Springfield Republicans gather to hold their secret ( Read more... )

You know when you're too busy/tired/stressed to post anything better than spam and yet oddly depressed that no one is sending you mail in response to the post you're not making?

Totally where I am right now.

So I'll fall back on the good-old GIP centric post. Seems I can never keep icons for more than a few weeks nowadays. (Brushes by my_wonderful and ( Read more... )

( Ugh. How could you make me choose? )

3-12-05 Top Hat (1935) [Not as good as Swing Time]
3-19-05 The World of Henry Orient (1964) [Unpretentious. Tippy Walker's performance particularly good]
3-24-05 La Belle et La Bete (1946)
3-25-05 Solaris (1972 ( Read more... )